On Sunday, February 10th, the Hampton Iona Community Group will be hosting a pancake breakfast at Iona Park. The event will start at 9am and go until 11am. We will be serving pancakes, hot chocolate, and coffee.

The field house will be open for people wanting a warm place to change into their skates, music will be playing, and various winter games will be available for participation.

In keeping with a ‘Keep It Green’ theme we would like residents to bring their own mugs and cutlery.

See you all there!

Place: Iona ParkDate: Sunday, February 10thTime: 9am-11am

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We have been informed that the Westboro Community Association will be commemorating the tragic crash that occurred last Friday at Westboro Station. For those wishing to participate, here are the details that we are aware of:

Hello fellow community members:

The Westboro Community Association is going to light a candle and lay flowers to commemorate those who lost their lives in the horrific bus crash on Jan. 11. We invite you to join us on the platform on Thursday, Jan. 17 at 7:00 p.m. and do the same. There is no ceremony or event; just the community together lighting a candle, laying flowers . . . whatever you think would be appropriate. See you then.

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The Hampton Iona Community Group will be hosting an all candidates debate for Ottawa Centre candidates in the upcoming provincial election. The debate is co-sponsored by 6 other west Ottawa community associations and will be held at St George’s Parish, a fully accessible venue.

Doors open at 6:30pm and the debate starts at 7pm. The moderator for the debate will be CBC’s Amanda Pfeffer.

Be sure to show up for your chance to ask a question of Ottawa Centre’s choices for MPP.

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This is a reminder that on Wednesday April 11, 2018 the Hampton Iona Community Group will be holding its AGM. The AGM will be held at 7:00 pm in the community kitchen in the Loblaws Superstore. The kitchen is on the second floor and is fully accessible.

At the AGM we will be reviewing our past year’s activities. This will be a chance to learn about what your community association has been up to for the past year, meet new neighbours and hopefully attract new volunteers for the wide range of activities that we want to pursue.

As per our rules regarding elections, if you are interested in running for an executive position (President, Vice-President, Treasurer or Secretary) we ask that you submit your name to Ken Hoffman (khoffman@web.ca) by March 28th at 9:00 pm. We ask for names in advance so that anyone running will have a chance to prepare for an election if more than one name comes forward for that position. If more than one candidate is nominated for a position, we will have an election for that position and the candidates will be advised after March 29th if there will be an election for that position so that they can plan their campaign. Those wanting to join the board in a non-executive position are welcomed and encouraged to sign up the night of the AGM. If there are no candidates by March 28 for a specific position, the incoming board may select someone for that position. For general inquiries about the AGM, please go to www.hamptoniona.ca.

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It’s that time of year again. WINTER! And that means that the Iona Park Rink is starting up again. As always, before we can start flooding, we must trample down the snow to build a base. Over the years we have determined that tramping around the snow with snowshoes is the best way of building the rink. Pulling a weighted toboggan also works well. Dozens of people just running around would also work well. The City has called for us to start building the rink by December 15 so we must start building the base within the next few days.

As such, we would like to meet one night this week to start building the base. I would propose that as many of us meet this Wednesday to start building our base. As always, a number of people bring their children and make a fun evening of it. Hampton Iona will bring some hot chocolate and Timbits to celebrate winter the Canadian way. Please let me know if you are available Wednesday evening around 7:00. If not enough people are available, then we try for Thursday evening instead.

We are also looking for new volunteers to help with the flooding. If you have never done it before, it is a great opportunity to meet your neighbours while learning a new skill. And it is easy to do. We would always pair a new person with someone experienced and in any case, we always recommend that people flood in pairs. This year, Sjors Reijers, will be assisting in managing the rink. He will be handling the schedule for flooding. If you are interested in helping out, please forward your name to us.

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Communities across Ottawa and Ontario took a big hit recently when Postmedia and Torstar announced they were swapping 32 community newspapers and then shutting them down.
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Even as the Competition Bureau of Canada declared it would investigate the transaction, Postmedia and Torstar abruptly shut down some of their newly-acquired holdings, including the Orillia Packet & Times, the storied newspaper from Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of Little Town, which had been in publication since 1870.

The remaining newspapers are slated for closure in early January 2018, including the Orleans News, the Ottawa East, South and West News, the Nepean/Barrhaven News and the Kanata Kourier-Standard.

Many residents are decrying the impending erasure of their community voice, and have expressed grave concerns for how community events, issues, development projects and the democratic process – will be shared with residents without their locally-dedicated news source.

In this vein, the Elmvale Acres Community Association (EACA) located in (Ward 18 – Alta Vista) has started a petition calling on the Competition Bureau to intervene in this transaction. Many residents in the ward of Alta Vista have already put their support behind this petition and we have the full support of other community associations in the ward including: Canterbury Community Association, Riverview Park and Alta Vista Community Association. Elmvale Acres is asking other associations to notify their members and to direct them to the petition.

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Think about the qualities that drew you to live in Hampton Iona. What made this part of Ottawa a place in which you wanted to live, raise a family and retire? How do you feel about the way your neighbourhood is developing now? What concerns you? What excites you? How do we retain the qualities that make this a special part of the city in which to live, while dealing with issues such as intensification and opportunities such as the LRT?

Come and join us on October 18th for a “big picture” conversation concerning the future of our corner of Kitchissippi Ward. With significant new development, infill and changing transportation systems, Hampton Iona and the rest of Kitchissippi Ward will look significantly different in 10 or 20 years. How can we have a voice in what our future will look like? What role can citizens play in designing our neighbourhoods and city; and coping with change? How can we make sure that our social and physical infrastructures keep pace with our population growth?

On October 18 from 7 pm to 9 pm, the Hampton Iona Community Group (HICG) will be holding a public conversation with Councillor Jeff Leiper: Ward 15: Looking 4ward. Facilitated by our own professional facilitator, Ken Hoffman of One World, Ward 15: Looking 4ward will be an opportunity to learn more about what is envisioned by the City of Ottawa for our area, and for us to work in small groups to discuss what is important to us. From population projections to the impact of the LRT on our neighbourhoods, this will be an opportunity for all of us to learn more about the future, the role we can play and that of our community association in helping to make decisions.

While we have all had concerns and complaints about both the impacts and implementation of intensification, we recognize that growth is going to happen. The purpose of this event is to spend a productive evening learning more about how Westboro and Kitchissippi are expected to grow, what are our key issues and how we can better control our future.

For a number of years we have had a Secondary Plan for Westboro and Richmond Road which has sadly not worked the way we intended. On October 18th, we will learn more about what we need to do to get the City to revise our Secondary Plan so that it has teeth and, what our role is in revising the Plan.

Ward15: Looking 4ward will be held in the second floor demonstration kitchen (handicap accessible) at the Loblaws Superstore (Richmond Road and Kirkwood). For details or questions, please contact HIGC at webmaster@hamptoniona.ca. We look forward to seeing you on October 18th.